Flash Estimates of Income and Poverty Indicators

The project stems from the need to provide timelier data on income, poverty, and social exclusion in order to feed the discussions in the context of the European Semester (including the early alert mechanism and the MIP
).

Timeliness of survey data on income and inequality can be improved, but for maintaining an appropriate level of quality, these improvements have limits; in the best case scenario, SILC
data on income year N-1 could be available early year N+1.Therefore, for providing earlier information an approach based on modelling (nowcasting) is necessary.

What is the CROS Portal?

The CROS
Portal is a content management system based on Drupal and stands for "Portal on Collaboration in Research and Methodology for Official Statistics". The CROS
Portal is dedicated to the collaboration between researchers and Official Statisticians in Europe and beyond. It provides a working space and tools for dissemination and information exchange for statistical projects and methodological topics. Services provided include hosting of statistical communities, repositories of useful documents, research results, project deliverables, and discussion fora on different topics like the future research needs in Official Statistics.